TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.51. 1840.

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For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and otherexpenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Ports-mouth, New Hampshire , twenty thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charles-town, Massachusetts , seventeen thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn ,New York , eighteen thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania , five thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washing-ton, twenty thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport,Virginia , seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensa-cola , thirteen thousand dollars;

Provided, That no more of the several appropriations last mentionedfor the improvement and repair of the navy yards, shall be expendedprevious to the fourth day of March next, than shall be found by theSecretary of the Navy , upon inquiries made for the purpose, to be ab-solutely necessary for the preservation of the public works, the securityof the public property, and the prosecution of the public business at therespective yards;

For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-five thousand dollars;

For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following pur-poses, viz : For the freight and transportation of materials and storesof every description ; for wharfage and dockage; storage and rent; tra-velling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen; house rent forpursers, when duly authorized; for funeral expenses; for commissions,clerk-hire, office-rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums,and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; forcompensation to judges-advocate; for per diem allowance to personsattending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services autho-rized by law; for printing and stationery of every description, and forworking the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematicaland nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for thepurchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; for the repair ofsteam engines in navy yards; for the purchase and maintenance of oxenand horses, and for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen’s tools of everydescription; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage andtowing ships of war; for taxes and assessments on public property; forassistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navyyards not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel,and for candles and oil for the use of navy yards and shore stations, andfor no other object or purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousanddollars;

For contingent expenses for objects not herein before enumerated,three thousand dollars;

For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians andprivates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hun-dred and seventy-five thousand .and fifty dollars and forty cents;

For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians and pri-vates serving on shore, servants and washerwomen, forty-five thousandand fifty four dollars and ninety-nine cents;

For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollarsand fifty, cents ;

For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars andtwelve cents;

Medicines,&c.

Navy yards atPortsmouth .

Charlestown.

Brooklyn .

Philadelphia .

Washington.

Gosport.

Pensacola .

Proviso.

Ordnance,&c.Miscellaneousexpenses.

Expenses.

Pay of marinecorps, &c.

Provisions.

Clothing.

Fuel.